10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
3:52 a.m.
said Felix Miata via tde-users:
| dep composed on 2023-03-10 03:11 (UTC):
| > I would like to continue to upgrade uneventfully. I
| > just don't want to get it from Ubuntu
|
| Now I get it. Are you limited by having only one PC, which must be up
| 24/7, and no time at all for experimentation? If not, and unless it has
| been reported impossible, I'd clone the current *buntu to another disk
| and/or PC, and try upgrading from Ubuntu to Debian (without which *buntu
| would not exist). I might even try one just for fun if no one here knows
| of reports suggesting it too difficult or impossible. *buntu has some
| things that differ, and plenty of embellishments, but they are probably
| unnecessary to your working system, or any Debian system, which apt*
| probably would report no longer needed and removable.
I'm not limited as to computers, but I am limited as to time and my current
configuration works -- no more taking two days to get the frigging vid
driver to work, for instance (which is a non-free driver, which makes
trouble with Debian; in any case, last time I did a Ubuntu-Debian the
result was not pretty).
I'm thinking that Ubuntu to the "free" Ubuntu -- Trisquel
(https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without-reinstalling ) --
might work. There's a script, last updated a decade ago, that if edited
might work, and it apparently incorporates /etc/apt/sources.list. But it
is also free-as-in-Debian, so who knows what it will do to non-free stuff.
I've inquired as to whether it has a non-free repository. I'm hoping that
the names remain the same -- security, updates, backports -- and all I
need to do is change the servers (in which case I could probably even keep
the genuine Ubuntu non-free repo). I've made inquiry as to the servers;
with luck I can simply edit the sources.list, a little more elaborately
than Ubuntu-Ubuntu but still, and then proceed as normal. Ubuntu has just
been sneaking too much stuff onto my machine -- "Ubuntu Advantage," now
the warning messages during security updates -- for me to be at all
comfortable with them anymore.
I guess I was hoping either someone here had done this or else knew of a
magic way of switching over to full Debian without much pain.
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